A History of Islam in Indonesia: Unity in Diversity (New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys)

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Carool Kersten provides comprehensive insight into the different roles played by Islam in Indonesia throughout history, including the importance of Indian Ocean networks for connecting Indonesians with the wider Islamic world, the religion's role as a means of resistance and tool for nation building, and postcolonial attempts to forge an `Indonesian Islam'.

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Carool Kersten provides comprehensive insight into the different roles played by Islam in Indonesia throughout history, including the importance of Indian Ocean networks for connecting Indonesians with the wider Islamic world, the religion's role as a means of resistance and tool for nation building, and postcolonial attempts to forge an `Indonesian Islam'.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 30 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 0748681841
ISBN 13: 9780748681846

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Elegantly written, carefully crafted, and solidly grounded in scholarly sources and debates, this book provides an excellent synthetic account of the history of Islam in Indonesia. Carool Kersten's erudition, astute and judicious readings of the specialist literature, and his skills as a writer are all in ample evidence in this magisterial survey. -- John T. Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science

-Elegantly written, carefully crafted, and solidly grounded in scholarly sources and debates, this book provides an excellent synthetic account of the history of Islam in Indonesia. Carool Kersten's erudition, astute and judicious readings of the specialist literature, and his skills as a writer are all in ample evidence in this magisterial survey.- -- John T. Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science

Author Bio

Carool Kersten is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World at King's College London and a Research Associate at the Centre of South East Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. The author and editor of seven books, his latest publications include Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values (2015) and a three-volume anthology, The Caliphate and Islamic Statehood (2015).